Impact of Politics, Culture, and Power on Team and Individual Performance

Organisation and
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1. Critically evaluate the affect of politics, culture as well as power on team & individuals
performance. ...............................................................................................................................4
M1 Critique the impact of politics, power & culture on team ad individual performance.........8
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
P2 Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context. .........................................9
M2: Critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective
application of behavioural motivational theories,concepts and models: .................................10
D1. Critically evaluate interrelation among power, culture and politics towards organisational
success.......................................................................................................................................11
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
P3: Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team. .......................11
M3: Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the development of the
cooperative within effective teams. ..........................................................................................12
P4: Apply concepts and philosophies of organisation behaviour within an organisational context
and given business situation. .........................................................................................................13
M4: Evaluate how concepts and philosophies of OB inform and influence behavioural within
a given business situation..........................................................................................................14
D2: critically analyse and evaluate the relevance of team development theories, concepts. 14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
The study of individuals attitude as well as performance who is working in the
organisation is termed as organisational Behaviour. In every organisation, the higher authorities
emphasises on creating healthy culture at workplace so that operations and activities of company
can be appropriately performed (Alleyne, 2016). With this, they maintain a good relations with
all the staff members so that organisational goals can be attained within standard time. In these
present report, Apple is chosen as a base company. It is a multinational association that basically
deals in designing and development of consumer electronics and computer software. The
company head office in California, United states and it is renowned as one of the biggest
technology company globally. The company was proposed in year 1976 by Steve jobs. Its
product are Mac, iPod, iPhone, smartwatch, Apple TV and so on. The services of Apple includes
Apple Music, iMessage, iCloud, Apple care, iTunes, Apple Pay and many more. The current
report describes the influence of politics, power as well as culture on teams and the individuals
performance. Moreover, process & content theories of motivation is going to discuss. It also
covers an understanding about effective & non effective teams in the organisation. Later, it
covers various philosophies as well as concepts of Organisational Behaviour which helps
company to handle complex situations.
TASK 1
P1. Critically evaluate the affect of politics, culture as well as power on team & individuals
performance.
Organisational behaviour is basically a process to understand about the attitude and the
behaviour of a particular person. This assist companies to gain knowledge about its workforce
and build strategies which motivate them to put efforts as well as contribute effectively towards
organisational goals (Appannah and Biggs, 2015). Through this, the managers raises the
productivity of an association in a define manner. There are mainly three factors that is politics,
culture & power which affect on the efficiency of groups and individuals. These three factors
impacts negatively and positively to the organisation. All these three factors is mentioned below
with relation to Apple is as follows:
Politics:

It occurs when there is interaction takes place among the people by using their power.
The politics in the companies plays essential role and impacts positively as well as negatively on
the working conditions of an organisation. It only generates at the time of communication
between the employees at the workplace. For instance, an employee working in sifts or there is
flexibility in the organisation to take leaves then it will develop dis-equality in the companies
and the staff members creates negative mindset towards other employee's (Carney, Cuddy and
Yap, 2015). On contrary if there is particular holidays set by the organisations, this will build
positive politics in the companies. In context to Apple, creation of negative politics in the
company develops negative attitude among employees and decreases their productivity level
which results into decline of profits of Apple. The creation of Positive politics boost the
performance of workforce and they put their best efforts to attain goals of the company. In
addition to this, the relation among the staff members will be strong and automatically increases
the performance of Apple. This happens because employees start trusting on each other and
easily coordinate with others to work for the organisation.
By analysing the above information about negative as well as positive politics, it has
been stated that the managers of Apple need to create positive politics in the working of the
company. This will build strong relationship between subordinates which positively affects on
their productivity level. In addition to this, this will also results in effective outcome which is
beneficial for the company as they gain high profits when employees effectively contribute
towards organisational objective (Geppert, 2017).
Culture
It basically involves values, norms, ideologies, opinions and beliefs which managers hold
for the organisation. It is essential for higher authorities or for the HR manager of companies to
develop a good culture for the subordinates so that their performance improves. This also
declines level of problems occurred within the organisation. In relation to Apple, the Human
Resource manager of the company follows Handy's Typology with an aim to gain understanding
about different cultures and uses the best culture in order to create positive culture in the
company. The various forms of Culture are as follows with relation to chosen company:
Task Culture: This culture takes place in the organisation to address particular projects
or to solve to solve specific issues. Herein, the power is shifted as it depends on the team
members and the problem which is going to solve. The mix of team members skills, leadership